I'm happy to annouce the first ALPHA release of Gallium3D bounty. The goal of the bounty is to implement hardware 3D acceleration in AROS by porting Mesa3D library and Gallium drivers for nVidia cards.

This release brings initial support for GeForce 5XXX, GeForce 6XXX and GeForce 7XXX card series.

http://www.power2people.org/bounty_046.html

The objective is to provide a Realtek ALC888 Sound Driver for AROS.

The assigned developer will receive free test hardware in form of a AresOne if required.

As the chip is used on many actual motherboards it could realy enhance Aros.

A new bounty had been opened for a Directory Opus Port at power2people.org

The main objective is to complete a new port of DOpus, based on the AmigaOS 4.17 beta.

Following the implementation of bounty requirements and transfer of bounty payment, the source codes for Poseidon USB are now available under the terms of AROS Public License.

With the astonishing response from Amiga community the target amount of money for the Poseidon USB Bounty has been reached. I'm extremely happy to see this, but what I'm equally happy is to see that the donations were coming from every part of the community, be it AmigaOS, MorphOS or AROS users. Thank you :)

If you still wish to donate, you can of course do it or select any other bounty that is open or in progress: http://www.power2people.org/projects.html

The Poseidon USB Bounty is about delivering a complete and working USB stack to AROS. So far 2180$ out of needed 4000$ has been donated. Thank you :)

But more money is needed! How to get it faster? Let me make you an offer: for every donation you put in the bounty for the next 3 weeks, a matching donation will be made until 4000$ are reached. Nice, ain't it? You donate once, but help twice :)

As can be seen on Power2People ( bottom of page) Stanislaw Szymczyk accepted the 'Port an Open Source Browser To AROS' bounty with the deadline of March 1st 2009.

Stanislaw Szymczyk has been working on AROS self-compilation since April. In September he was officially assigned to AROS Self-Compiling bounty. Now he created an experimental live CD allowing to compile AROS, Perl and Python on AROS. Only compilation in RAM Disk is possible at the moment due to issues with soft links handling.

As can be seen onhttp://www.power2people.org/projects.html Michal Schulz accepted the USB Mass Storage bounty. This functionality is needed to continue with his Efika bounty, but for sure it will be a big gain for i386 native AROS. Please support the bounty athttp://www.power2people.org/bounty_025.html

The first phase of Kickstart Rom Replacement has been attributed to bheron with December 1 of 2008 as deadline.